Omarosa Manigault

Omarosa Manigault (5 February 1974-) was the Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison (R) from 20 January 2017 to 20 January 2018. Manigault was a former reality television show participant, competing on the first season of Donald Trump's television show The Apprentice. She would later serve in his administration before resigning in December 2017; it was alleged that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her.

Biography
Omarose Onee Manigault was born in Youngstown, Ohio on 5 February 1974, and she earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 1996 from Central State University, later earning a master's degree from Howard University in Washington DC. During the 1990s, she worked as a scheduling correspondent for Vice President Al Gore in the White House, and she would be a registered Democratic Party member until 2015. In 2004, she became a contestant on Donald Trump's reality television series, The Apprentice, and she became known as a shrewd businesswoman and a "villain" for her "bad girl" personality on the show. She later appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice and All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.

In 2015, Manigault became a Republican Party member, and she was made Director of African-American Outreach by Donald Trump's presidential campaign during the 2016 presidential election. Manigaullt was made Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison, but her true role in the government was unknown. She was instead seen as one of Trump's personal cronies, and White House staff members such as John F. Kelly and Jared Kushner disliked her. On 13 December 2017, she resigned from her post in the White House, saying that she wanted to pursue other opportunities. However, The Daily Beast reported that she was fired by Kelly for her unfettered access to the president and her reality television villain personality, and that the Secret Service had to drag her out of the White House after she tried to head to talk with President Trump.